NBA & ABA Year-by-Year Playoff Leaders and Records for Blocks

Active players are listed in bold
* Indicates member of the Hall of Fame.
Blocks since 1973-74 (1971-72 for ABA)

Table
Year Lg Player BLK Tm
2023 NBA Anthony Davis 50 LAL
2022 NBA Robert Williams 38 BOS
2021 NBA Brook Lopez 34 MIL
2020 NBA Anthony Davis 30 LAL
2019 NBA Draymond Green 33 GSW
2018 NBA Clint Capela 36 HOU
2017 NBA Draymond Green 28 GSW
    Clint Capela 28 HOU
2016 NBA Draymond Green 41 GSW
2015 NBA Dwight Howard 39 HOU
2014 NBA Serge Ibaka 42 OKC
2013 NBA Roy Hibbert 37 IND
2012 NBA Serge Ibaka 59 OKC
2011 NBA Serge Ibaka 52 OKC
2010 NBA Dwight Howard 49 ORL
2009 NBA Dwight Howard 60 ORL
2008 NBA Pau Gasol* 40 LAL
2007 NBA Tim Duncan* 62 SAS
2006 NBA Shaquille O'Neal* 34 MIA
2005 NBA Ben Wallace* 59 DET
2004 NBA Shaquille O'Neal* 61 LAL
2003 NBA Tim Duncan* 79 SAS
2002 NBA Shaquille O'Neal* 48 LAL
2001 NBA Dikembe Mutombo* 72 PHI
2000 NBA Shaquille O'Neal* 55 LAL
1999 NBA Tim Duncan* 45 SAS
1998 NBA Greg Ostertag 37 UTA
1997 NBA Greg Ostertag 47 UTA
1996 NBA Shawn Kemp 40 SEA
1995 NBA Hakeem Olajuwon* 62 HOU
1994 NBA Hakeem Olajuwon* 92 HOU
1993 NBA Hakeem Olajuwon* 59 HOU
    Oliver Miller 59 PHO
1992 NBA Larry Nance 46 CLE
1991 NBA Vlade Divac* 41 LAL
1990 NBA Mark West 41 PHO
1989 NBA Manute Bol 29 GSW
1988 NBA John Salley 37 DET
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 37 LAL
1987 NBA Hakeem Olajuwon* 43 HOU
1986 NBA Hakeem Olajuwon* 69 HOU
1985 NBA Kevin McHale* 46 BOS
1984 NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 45 LAL
1983 NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 55 LAL
1982 NBA Robert Parish* 48 BOS
1981 NBA Julius Erving* 41 PHI
1980 NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 58 LAL
1979 NBA Elvin Hayes* 52 WSB
1978 NBA Marvin Webster 58 SEA
1977 NBA Bill Walton* 64 POR
1976 NBA Gar Heard 37 PHO
  ABA Artis Gilmore* 36 KEN
1975 NBA George Johnson 40 GSW
  ABA Len Elmore 39 INA
1974 NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 39 MIL
  ABA Artis Gilmore* 30 KEN